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Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Philosophy, on topics such as Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications, African history and culture analysis and Philosophy, Science, and History.

World rank
#740
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#44
of 90,785
Works
98
Citations
1.8k
Citations per work
17.9

What does Ernest Gellner research?

Political Science and International Relations: 26.9%Sociology and Political Science: 15.1%Philosophy: 8.6%Archeology: 5.4%other fields: 44.0%27%top field
Political Science and International Relations26.9%Sociology and Political Science15.1%Philosophy8.6%Archeology5.4%other fields44.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Political Science and International Relations27% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy9% of their works
  4. 4Archeology5% of their works
  5. 5History5% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ernest Gellner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Religion, Migration, Semitic Languages, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Philosophy, Wittgenstein and Family Law.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Religion113 topics
  2. Migration72 topics
  3. Semitic Languages52 topics
  4. Eritrea41 topic
  5. Ethiopia41 topic
  6. Philosophy41 topic
  7. Wittgenstein41 topic
  8. Family Law31 topic
  9. Global Development Goals31 topic
  10. Language Contact31 topic
  11. Linguistic Diversity31 topic
  12. Logical Empiricism31 topic
  13. Reform31 topic
  14. Tunisian Revolution31 topic
  15. Vienna Circle31 topic
  16. Algerian War21 topic
  17. Arabia21 topic
  18. Byzantine21 topic
  19. Colonial Identity21 topic

Where does Ernest Gellner work?

Ernest Gellner's main affiliation in the publication record is London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Ernest Gellner have?

Science Explorer counts 98 works and 1,758 citations for Ernest Gellner, ranking #740 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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